Dennis C Rasmussen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 987221 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dennis C Rasmussen |
| PRENOMES | Dennis C |
| SOBRENOME | Rasmussen |
| ASSINATURA | RASMUSSEN D C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tufts University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Fears of a Setting Sun
Fears of a Setting Sun
The Infidel and the Professor
Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Economic Inequality
This article explores Adam Smith's attitude toward economic inequality, as distinct from the problem of poverty, and argues that he regarded it as a double-edged sword. On the one hand, as has often been recognized, Smith saw a high degree of economic inequality as an inevitable result of a flourishing commercial society, and he considered a certain amount of such inequality to be positively useful as a means of encouraging productivity and bolst…
Burning Laws and Strangling Kings? Voltaire and Diderot on the Perils of Rationalism in Politics
The thinkers of the French Enlightenment are frequently depicted as political rationalists, meaning that they advocated subjecting all laws, institutions, and practices to the withering light of reason, and discarding those found wanting by its standards. However, two of the most prominent philosophes, Voltaire and Diderot, were in fact opponents of the kind of political rationalism that they are often thought to have embraced. Both of these thin…
Does "Bettering Our Condition" Really Make Us Better Off? Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness
Adam Smith is almost certainly history's most famous advocate of commercial society, but he frankly admits that the relentless pursuit of wealth is a major obstacle to tranquility and contentment and hence that, at first glance, the higher living standards that people "enjoy" in commercial society seem to come only at the cost of their happiness. I argue that the solution to this apparent paradox can be found in Smith's account of the positive po…
Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Economic Inequality
This article explores Adam Smith's attitude toward economic inequality, as distinct from the problem of poverty, and argues that he regarded it as a double-edged sword. On the one hand, as has often been recognized, Smith saw a high degree of economic inequality as an inevitable result of a flourishing commercial society, and he considered a certain amount of such inequality to be positively useful as a means of encouraging productivity and bolst…
Does "Bettering Our Condition" Really Make Us Better Off? Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness
Adam Smith is almost certainly history's most famous advocate of commercial society, but he frankly admits that the relentless pursuit of wealth is a major obstacle to tranquility and contentment and hence that, at first glance, the higher living standards that people "enjoy" in commercial society seem to come only at the cost of their happiness. I argue that the solution to this apparent paradox can be found in Smith's account of the positive po…
The Infidel and the Professor
Burning Laws and Strangling Kings? Voltaire and Diderot on the Perils of Rationalism in Politics
The thinkers of the French Enlightenment are frequently depicted as political rationalists, meaning that they advocated subjecting all laws, institutions, and practices to the withering light of reason, and discarding those found wanting by its standards. However, two of the most prominent philosophes, Voltaire and Diderot, were in fact opponents of the kind of political rationalism that they are often thought to have embraced. Both of these thin…
Does "Bettering Our Condition" Really Make Us Better Off? Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness
Adam Smith is almost certainly history's most famous advocate of commercial society, but he frankly admits that the relentless pursuit of wealth is a major obstacle to tranquility and contentment and hence that, at first glance, the higher living standards that people "enjoy" in commercial society seem to come only at the cost of their happiness. I argue that the solution to this apparent paradox can be found in Smith's account of the positive po…
Burning Laws and Strangling Kings? Voltaire and Diderot on the Perils of Rationalism in Politics
The thinkers of the French Enlightenment are frequently depicted as political rationalists, meaning that they advocated subjecting all laws, institutions, and practices to the withering light of reason, and discarding those found wanting by its standards. However, two of the most prominent philosophes, Voltaire and Diderot, were in fact opponents of the kind of political rationalism that they are often thought to have embraced. Both of these thin…
Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Economic Inequality
This article explores Adam Smith's attitude toward economic inequality, as distinct from the problem of poverty, and argues that he regarded it as a double-edged sword. On the one hand, as has often been recognized, Smith saw a high degree of economic inequality as an inevitable result of a flourishing commercial society, and he considered a certain amount of such inequality to be positively useful as a means of encouraging productivity and bolst…
The Infidel and the Professor
Fears of a Setting Sun
Fears of a Setting Sun
Political science (4 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Adam smith (2 obras) · Happiness (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (2 obras) · Law (2 obras)